FIVE HUNDRED MILES AWAY FROM HOME
(Bobby Bare - Charlie Williams)
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I'm five hundred miles away from home
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Teardrops fell on mama's note, when I read the things she wrote
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She said "we miss you son we love you come on home"
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Well I didn't have to pack I had it all right on my back
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Now I'm five hundred miles away from home
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Away from home away from home cold and tired and all alone
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Yes I'm five hundred miles away from home
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I know this is the same road I took the day I left home
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But it sure looks different now
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Cause I guess I look different too
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'Cause time changes everything
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I wonder what they'll say
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When they see their boy looking this way
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Oh, I wonder what they'll say when I get home
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Can't remember when I ate it's just thumb and walk and wait
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And I'm still five hundred miles away from home
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If my luck had been just right I'd be with them all tonight
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But I'm still five hundred miles away from home
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Away from home away from home, cold and tired and all alone
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Yes, I'm still five hundred miles away from home
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Yes, I'm still five hundred miles away from home